Hello everyone, I have an error message 'too few arguments' What am I doing wrong ?
[email protected] schrieb am Freitag, 19. Juni 2020 um 23:51:52 UTC+2: > Yes, that is correct. The idea is that there is something really going > wrong if you have this happening multiple times. (You can bypass that by > setting the restarts in the config to a higher number but I would not > advise to do so) > > If it is a one off, then resetting the number in the flag file to 0 would > work best and is a safer approach. > > On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 5:04 PM James Bellanca <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I know this threads a little old, but thanks for the script. I just >> implemented it now. >> >> It appears that after it detects WeeWx is down, it restarts it, but then >> leaves the weewxNotRunning.txt file out there with the number of retries in >> it. So, say it has to restart WeeWx, successfully does so, and a week later >> does it again, etc. After the 3rd week, because it counts as a "retry" and >> the file's left out there, it will stop. So, in other words, you have to >> know, if you get the email, make sure you go out there and delete >> the weewxNotRunning.txt manually to reset the counter, or it'll stop >> working after the 3rd time it happens. I'm not missing anything, right? >> >> >> On Friday, September 13, 2013 at 7:44:28 PM UTC-4, Constantine Samaklis >> wrote: >>> >>> I thought I would give something back to the group since I have gotten >>> good help to my questions. I have created a Python utility script that can >>> be ran periodically (cron?) to check if weewx is running and if it is not, >>> it will send out an email with a number of lines from the end of the log >>> (/var/log/messages, or whatever log you want) that would show the error >>> that weewx encountered. The script will try to restart weex a number of pre >>> configurable times, in case the error was a fluke rather than a fatal one. >>> >>> The script will stop trying to send messages after it has reached the >>> indicated *restarts* times in the configuration times, and you will >>> need to delete the *flagFile* that has been created. (or write a 0 in >>> it). The script has a configurable log rotation, where you can indicate the >>> log rotation interval (in days) and the days of logs to keep. >>> >>> *logOutput* is the temporary tail of the messages log (or could be the >>> syslog or whatever you specify) that will be emailed as an attachment if >>> weewx is found not to be running. >>> >>> I hope everyone finds this somewhat useful. If you are somewhat paranoid >>> about your weather station being up 24/7 like me then you probably will. :-) >>> >>> Questions and comments are welcome. >>> >>> >>> #configuration file for checking routine >>> [mail] >>> [email protected] >>> [email protected] >>> msgSubj=weewx process is not running >>> body=weewx process is not running. Please check the attached log and >>> address the issue >>> [email protected] >>> password=yourPwd >>> smtpServer=smtp.gmail.com:587 >>> >>> [logging] >>> logDir=/home/user/scripts >>> logFile=checkWeewx.log >>> logOutput=tail.log >>> linesToTail=200 >>> logToTail=/var/log/messages >>> logRotationDayInterval=1 >>> logDaysToKeep=5 >>> >>> [weewx] >>> #how many times to try and restart the weewx process >>> restarts=3 >>> flagLogDir=/home/user/scripts >>> flagFile=weewxNotRunning.txt >>> startCommand=sudo /etc/init.d/weewx start >>> >>> You can launch the script by typing: Python ./checkWeewx.py >>> /pathToConfigFile/checkWeewx.config >>> >>> The configuration format: >>> >>> #configuration file for checking routine >>> [mail] >>> [email protected] >>> [email protected] >>> msgSubj=weewx process is not running >>> body=weewx process is not running. Please check the attached log and >>> address the issue >>> [email protected] >>> password=yourPwd >>> smtpServer=smtp.gmail.com:587 >>> >>> [logging] >>> logDir=/home/user/scripts >>> logFile=checkWeewx.log >>> logOutput=tail.log >>> linesToTail=200 >>> logToTail=/var/log/messages >>> logRotationDayInterval=1 >>> logDaysToKeep=5 >>> >>> [weewx] >>> #how many times to try and restart the weewx process >>> restarts=3 >>> flagLogDir=/home/user/scripts >>> flagFile=weewxNotRunning.txt >>> startCommand=sudo /etc/init.d/weewx start >>> >> -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "weewx-user" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/weewx-user/9yskDGu9vI0/unsubscribe. >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> [email protected]. >> > To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/3e10898a-5ec9-4ee1-b4ea-aceb85e8602ao%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/3e10898a-5ec9-4ee1-b4ea-aceb85e8602ao%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. 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